Question

I’m creating an upload form using CodeIgniter and I’d like to upload a plaintext file with a .out extension. In my controller I’ve set the following options:

// Set upload variables
$uploadConfig['upload_path'] = 'uploads/temp/';
$uploadConfig['allowed_types'] = 'out|txt';
$uploadConfig['max_size'] = '1024';

$this->load->library('upload', $uploadConfig);

In the mimes.php config file, I have the following:

'text'  =>  'text/plain',
'out'   =>  'text/plain',

And in my httpd.conf file on my server, I’ve added the line:

AddType text/plain .out

Whenver I try to upload a .out file, I get the error message The filetype you are attempting to upload is not allowed. An identical file with a .txt extension uploads just fine.

Any thoughts on how to get this custom mime type to work with CI? Thanks!

Answer 1

That looks like it should work. The Upload class just explodes the ‘allowed_types’ string at the pipe separator, then checks if the file extension is in the array.

Does it work if you use ‘*’ as the allowed_types config setting?